About Speed the Light

The
concept is simple: we give so others can speed the light of the gospel
to a world in darkness. This is accomplished by providing the "essential
transportation and creative communication" equipment for missionary
evangelism. Through modern transportation, radio, television, the
printed word, and equipment for mass evangelism, our missionaries can
better fulfill the Great Commission.

Speed the Light (STL) is the student-initiated, volunteer,
charitable program that provides much-needed equipment to missionaries
across the nation and in over 180 countries around the world. Since its
beginning, STL has raised over $253 million for missionary equipment
around the world. (For more information on STL, click here: Knowing Speed the Light.)

Speed the Light began in 1944 after Ralph Harris, then head
of the National Youth Ministries department, prayed for a way to give
A/G students the opportunity to help missionaries in their work. Now, by
providing ministry equipment to our missionaries, STL is training the
young people of America to develop individual ownership of the Great
Commission as they help our missionaries spread the gospel message to
the lost.

Today, Speed the Light is one of the most effective youth
missions ministries in the church world. Assemblies of God students have
accepted a great responsibility to voluntarily sacrifice and raise
funds to purchase the equipment. STL operates with one guiding
principle: All assistance must go to purchase equipment directly related
to evangelism ("evangelism" is defined as propagating the gospel and
instructing converts). STL equipment has not been nor is presently given
for promotion, solicitation, or normal administrative functions.

If our missionaries are going to get to where the lost live,
it will be because of Speed the Light. Every missionary in the
Assemblies of God will at some point fly, drive, or float to their
destination in transportation that has been provided to them by our
churches and students through Speed the Light. Airplanes, cars, vans,
motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, buses, boats, horses, camels, donkeys,
wheel barrows, etc., if it has wheels or hooves and can carry a
missionary to a country, city, town, village, or under a card board box
where someone is waiting to hear about Jesus, Speed the Light has
provided it.

We give so our missionaries can travel faster, preach
clearer, and be heard louder, in order that that Heaven might be a
bigger place…filled with people from every nationality, color, and tribe
who have accepted Him as their Savior.